5 years after release and there is a known game killing bug involving RANDOM encounters on the main map. A solution is offered by inXile Entertainment that might work or might now work, based on your PC hardware. It Involves changing "affinity" of your PC cores after you launch the game, which you SHOULD NOT have to be fiddling with on a finished product. Complete joke that they still offer this abomination of a game for sale, knowing that you can get halfway through and then be unable to advance further! Stay away from InXile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wasteland 3 could have been a great game. It has incredible amounts of character, beautiful places to explore, and honestly, an extremely captivating early game that few RPGs ever manage to do. It's not afraid to kick you straight into action from the get go, and gives you plenty of reasons to continue playing right after that. Heck, the first time I dove into this, I played this straight for close to 10 hours.

So why a not recommend? Bugs. There are SO. MANY. BUGS.

Friendly allies getting stuck on their turn? Check.

Enemies glitching through walls or shooting through walls? Check.

Visual glitches where the hit percentage doesn't update when it should? Check.

Unable to click on stuff in the world map unless you do some mouse flinging? Check.

Cameras refusing to return to your previous settings after exiting dialogue? Check.

And the one bug that ended my desire to continue playing: ambushes in the world map leads to a situation where combat does not start, the enemies ignore you, and you can't exit the map, causing a hard lock. Given just how often these ambushes are, this is a game breaker.

Ultimately, Inxile had always been notorious for their poor engineering skills, and Wasteland 3 shows this in spades. The game is just in an utterly sad technical state that I would not recommend this to anybody. I really liked the original Wasteland, and Fallout 1 and 2. It's sad to see Wasteland 3 left at this buggy state.

I do not usually review games but this was excellent front to back. If you even slightly like turn based games - buy it.